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From:Melbourne Journal of Politics (Vol. 35) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) approach to the issue of female under-representation in the Japanese parliament (the Diet) by considering how former Prime Minister Koizumi's successful bid...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedViviane Reding, the commissioner in charge of justice and fundamental rights, has called it a historic day for gender equality and said it was "a breakthrough proposal". Reding was extremely enthusiastic about the...
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From:Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCustomary law often includes gender discriminatory rules that violate women's rights under constitutional equality guarantees. Dialogic democracy theory offers valuable tools that can help a legal system both to protect...
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From:Journal of Third World Studies (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION After discovering that only a small number of works, all of which employ the case study approach, have investigated a possible connection between governance and gender equality as a human right in...
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From:Education (Vol. 130, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe paper assessed the after effect of Beijing women conference of 1995. It looked at issues of women with special regard to the resistance of men to women advancing to higher position; the rate of exposure of rural...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedSweden's Eva-Britt Svensson (GUE-NGL), who lost out To Jerzy Buzek in the vote for the EP president's seat, has now been named as chair of theaCommittee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). During the last EP...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedIn 2007 in the EU, the employment rate was 72.5% for men and 58.3% for women, compared with 70.7% and 53.6%, respectively, in 2000. This means that employment rates for both men and women have increased over this...
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From:The Journal of Men's Studies (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedToday, what is called "Gender Mainstreaming" is the main strategy of the European Union to work toward gender equality. The definitions of Gender Mainstreaming explicitly include men, and there have been first efforts...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedIn a hearing on 21 November organised by the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights, experts wanted to evaluate the implementation of Directive 2002/73/EC on equality between men and women, which gives a...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The World Social Forum is only one in the worldwide process of social fora, (2) which mark a new phase in the era of globalisation. This critical form of globalisation from below challenges neoliberal...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction From the mid 1970s, Australian parliaments enacted legislation for the stated purpose of addressing discrimination in the paid labour force, including more recently in relation to the issues of pregnancy...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Numerous efforts are in place in Malawi to address the high rates of HIV/AIDS in the country. Furthermore, several successes in HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation (including free antiretroviral drugs to...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe EU Council of Ministers adopted its common position on 18 September on the Gender Institute - or the European Institute for Gender Equality - which will now be passed onto the European Parliament for its second...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedAttending a conference on gender equality on 4 May, EU Competition CommissioneraNeelie Kroes launched what she called a 'resounding appeal to women'. 'We can no longer make do with diplomatic talk. If we do, it will...
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From:Theological Studies (Vol. 66, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed[The author analyzes U.S. Catholic perspectives on economic livelihood at the beginnings of the 20th and 21st centuries, giving particular attention to the influence of beliefs and practices surrounding gender....
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From:Sister Namibia (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE 8TH OF MARCH WAS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. AS EQUALITY FOR WOMEN MEANS PROGRESS FOR ALL, IT MAKES GOOD SENSE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT. Civil society...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mosiur Rahman 1,*, Keiko Nakamura 1, Kaoruko Seino 1, Masashi Kizuki 2 Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV), which consists of a range of physical or sexual coercive acts, or both, perpetrated...
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From:Education (Vol. 135, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe maternal employment becomes an irreversible trend across the globe. The effect of maternal employment on children's socioemotional functioning is so pervasive that it warrants special attention to investigate into...
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From:Mountain Research and Development (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe present article argues for better assessing how drinking water supply interventions affect gender relations. This requires going beyond conventional "water burden" indicators such as time spent collecting water or...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInclusive decision-making is necessary in terms of both legitimacy and good policy outcomes. Recognizing this, closing persistent gender gaps in public life has emerged as a critical policy issue as countries increase...